submission problem

I have emailed earlier but posting up on blog again as there was no reply.


I had to submit my assignment 3 zipped files to assignment 2 folder because there was no assignment 3 folder under submission folder. I tried to place my assignment 3 zipped folder into submission folder however it would not let me. Therefore I have submitted to "assignment 2" folder.
 
Thankyou

Final Poster

Poster text

INTRODUCTION

“Sydney council has taken heed of popular opinion that the Toaster apartment at Bennelong does not enhance the character of the harbor and has flagged the building for deconstruction”. Considering on the “topology in architecture”, Toaster apartment will be replaced with another architecture that will focus on element of the aquatic and the parkland behind the site.

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this study is to have better architecture that will complete the environment of the site. The site is one of the places representing Australia with Opera House and Harbour Bridge which is a popular tourist destination.

Using the technique of “Topology in Architecture”, character of harbour and parkland will be both covered. Topology in architecture is the “study of the behaviour of a structure of surfaces subjected to deformation”.

Method of inquiry used will be firstly building architecture that does not cover the view of Opera House and Harbour Bridge when viewed from the exit of train station. This is because most of people start to walk off from station as that is like an entrance of Circular Quay. When the design of building is set, by playing with geometry’s deformation from one point to another, both element of being aquatic on one side and parkland on the other will be achieved. 

TOPOLOGY

Is Topology in architecture process or product that influences the design of architecture?

 Topology can be both process and product. When the topology in architecture are presented physically (non-interactive) by the deformation in design, forms and pattern, it is considered to be “topological in process” as deformation were done while constructing architecture. However, if the deformation could still be made even after the constructions are fully done, digitally (user-interactive) through computer systems, it is considered to be “topological in product”.

 TOPOLOGY IN PROJECT

The use of graphing in grasshopper that controls the surface of building is a start of topology in architecture.  

I have decided to divide building into 3 parts which are water side, walkway and bush area for the deformation of geometry to happen starting from one end to another. Also by having architecture to be built over water is for the use of water reflection on building in daytime and building’s reflection on water at night time which is another use of ‘topology in product’.

Deformation of geometry was achieved through the use of surface morph technique in grasshopper. Deformed geometry represents the balcony area of the apartment.

 

ITERATION

Twelve iterations paired up to 6 sets.

Left column shows 6 different iterations controlling on the points before lofting two set of curves. Use of graphs on surface, in grasshopper, gives variety of surface architecture which is one of topology in architecture.

Right column deals with deformation of geometry from one point to another. Use of surface morph controlling on heights to a given shapes created on rhino shows the deformation of geometry. This is done by dividing the surface lofted. Deformation of geometry is the representation of topology in architecture.

Laser cut FINAL

Base for laser cutting

Base for laser cutting

I have decided to create base for my laser cutting to stand.
I wanted to firstlt have my name engraved !
Also, two laser cuts are being layered to represent water and ground.
This was to show how my building will be place.

montage

grasshopper file

Gluing pieces together

Since my material is clear, I cannot place super glue on the surface. Property of superglue is it bubbles or creates a fog when it drys. The right picture shows my practice on spare acrylic.

After practice and test on spare acrylic "zap-a-gap" medium superglue gave the best result. Also, instead of placing glue in the centre of surfaces, I decided to place glue on the joints edge so that fog can be erased if created.

Draft poster

12 iterations

Model

Laser cutting completed at square house UNSW.

Numberings and name was engraved.

Next step is to bond sliced model in an order.

Laser cutting final file

Laser cutting file ready for order to go through.

Since I am using 3mm clear acrylic, slicings were done in rhino with 3mm thick.
The acrylic supplied from university was 900mm x 600mm therefore templet had to be fixed.

Slicing in Rhino

Baked closed brep surface to slice in Rhino for laser cutting.
First green lines shows the directions for the slicing to be done.

Slicing video tutorial

For the slicing to be done in rhino, "section tool" was to be downloaded in google.

Deformation

Deformation of geometry.

This was done firstly by dividing lofts in z-vector direction.
By controlling number slider of height in surface box, deformation was presented.

Surface Morph video tutorial

Youtube video tutorial on surface morphing on grasshopper.

Architecture design

Above is the original design drawn before creating on grasshopper.

I wanted to divide the building into 3 parts ( water, walkway, and bush area ).

Starting from water side to bush area, I want to create the deformation of geometry for the topology of architecture.

Also, the building will be built over water for the reflection to be created on the architecture. This is another topology in architecture.

Getting started on Grasshopper

Getting stated with grasshopper with Steve's help !
Trying to achieve having certain geometry on surface as my concept's on surface architecture.
Above pictures show geometry, cone, on surface, cylinder.
By the control of sliders on quantity of geometry in surface and how much area you want to cover, different results created.

FINAL sets of sources

TOPOLOGY- aspect of experimental modelling

Main sources

Busbea, L (1960-1970). topologies. France: MIT Press. 140-167

Sub sources

G.J.O. Jameson (1974). topology and normed spaces. London: Chapman and hall. 1-14.

Lefschetz, S (1975). Applications of algebraic topology. New York: Springer-Verlag. 3-42.

Ward, L (1972). Topology. New York: Marcel Dekker. 1-36.

Franklin, S. Thomas, B (1976). Topology. New York: Marcel Dekker. 1-75.

Alik, B. (1999). A topology construction from line drawings using a uniform plane subdivision technique. Computer-Aided Design. 31 (5), 335-348.

ARCHITECTURE- aspect of design

Main sources

Frascari M, Hale J, Starkey B (2007). From Model to Drawing. New York: Routledge. 34-41.

Sub sources

Brookes, A. Poole, D (2004). Innovation in Architecture. London: Spon Press. 15-28.

Sharp, D (1966). Modern architecture and expressionism. Lonon: Longmans. 166-168.

Schirmbeck, E (1987). Idea, form, and architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 9-132.

Fender, K. (2011). The More Things Change. Architecure Australia. 100 (1), 9.

Perren, C. (2011). Home-Real and Ideal. Architecure Australia. 100 (1), 21-22.

Four more references

TOPOLOGY -aspect of experimental modelling

Franklin, S. Thomas, B (1976). Topology. New York: Marcel Dekker. 1-75.

“Terms of the ways that various classes of spaces are related by the action of various kinds of mapping”

“generally topologists are concerned with the study of topological spaces and their relations to each other by means of continuous maps, in other ways: with the study of the category Top”

Alik, B. (1999). A topology construction from line drawings using a uniform plane subdivision technique. Computer-Aided Design. 31 (5), 335-348.

“The paper describes an algorithm for constructing the topology from a set of line segments or polylines. The problem appears for example at land-maps that have been drawn by general-purpose drawing packages or captured from blue-prints by digitalisation. The solution comprises two steps; in the first step inconsistencies in the input data are detected and removed, and in the second step the topology is constructed.”

ARCHITECTURE- aspect of design

Fender, K. (2011). The More Things Change. Architecure Australia. 100 (1), 9.

“Architects are not simply individuals working each in some isolated corner on some individual building. They are a corporate body of planners, making whole streets and villages and towns and cities of buildings, fashioning the frame within which the people live. Architects create an environment, and environment makes a people.”

Perren, C. (2011). Home-Real and Ideal. Architecure Australia. 100 (1), 21-22.

“Dreams of moving, flying or floating houses are nothing new. Few have realized, But they still encourage us to reflect and to think ahead about architectural problems

“Many architecture practices took the opportunity to present their latest work, hand in hand with the ideal version they would have liked to see if the budget had been sufficient the client more understanding, the engineering more advanced or the site more beautiful.”

Interesting modern architectures

Sub-sources

TOPOLOGY - Aspect of modelling

G.J.O. Jameson (1974). topology and normed spaces. London: Chapman and hall. 1-14.

“The aim of topology is to find the most general setting in which concepts of the type can still be profitably defined and studied. The key to this is the realization that these concepts can all be formulated purely in terms of neighbourhoods”

“ Informally, a topology can be regarded as a ‘rule’ that gives meaning to notions like ‘continuous’, ’limit’ and ‘open’.

Lefschetz, S (1975). Applications of algebraic topology. New York: Springer-Verlag. 3-42.

“In topology, limit is dimension”.

“There are many approaches to topology. One of the most accessible is by means of the notion of distance. Our purpose in the present chapter is to sketch this approach and a few of the general concepts derivable from it”.

Ward, L (1972). Topology. New York: Marcel Dekker. 1-36.

“The concept of compactness is amongthe most important deas of analysis, and it was studied extensively in Euclidean spaces well before the notion of a topological space was conceieved. The compact subsets of a Euclidean space are simply the closed sets with finite diameter. The idea of having finite diameter does not translate readily into the terminology of topological spaces, and even in metric spaces the closed sets with finite diameter do not necessarily possess the essential qualities of compact sets in Euclidean spaces”

“To a large extent, topology is concerned with properties of sets which are preserved by continuous functions”

ARCHITECTURE- Aspect of design

Brookes, A. Poole, D (2004). Innovation in Architecture. London: Spon Press. 15-28.

“mock-ups are required in order to explain and demonstrate, to learn, refine, tune and to achieve the right overall assembly and performance.”

Sharp, D (1966). Modern architecture and expressionism. Lonon: Longmans. 166-168.

“Architects of the visionary phase sought a complete freedom of expression”

Schirmbeck, E (1987). Idea, form, and architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 9-132.

“The individual design elements on which the particular designs are based are demonstration through a pictorial presentation of their architectural characteristics. This analysis is of the designer’s activity to make the clearest and most unwquivocal statement on behalf of the given architecture”

Assignment 1

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21476588/3290915mariaeunjipark.zip

This is my upload file of my assignment 1 as I could not submit to my submission file.

FINAL POSTER

Culled iterations

Culled iterations

These are the iterations created while I was creating my final iteration.They are exaggerated a lot on flexibility. The reason that I did not use them on my poster as one of my 12 iteration was because they were not intended to be shaped that way. I always had "how to put my iteration into an architectual industry".

Research on theme

Research on Dragonfly’s wing structure and geometry


Dragonfly's wings are formed with various shapes and areas repeating continuously in a pattern. It is a natural construction that determines its sex, breeds and functions. The shapes contained could be divided into three, which are four sided, five sided and six sided geometry. The shapes and its areas must be in place and accurate to be the certain part of the wing for a certain function.

The area of the shape decides on its flexibility and rigidity which are used for flight. As the area of shape increases, the flexibility increases together, and vice versa, as the area of shape decreases, it gets more rigid and straight. As well as its flexibility and rigidity, shapes and areas and the thickness of the branch handles with different forces and generates its tensile forces. The connection between the two shapes allows the whole entire wing to bend and fly.

The importance of the geometry in dragonfly's wings are very interesting and how they all must be in that certain shapes and sizes to link together and be one. Repeated patterns and its shapes and sizes are interesting to alter and see how the form changes as the numbers of sides and areas increase. As shown in the image, when it’s closely looked, the branch has its own thickness and height. Starting from its body, the branch thickness reduces as it gets to the edge of the wing.


Reference

S.R. Jongerius & D. Lentink, 2010, Structural Analysis of a Dragonfly Wing, viewed 10 March 2012,<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7B6-zONH1nYJ:www.delfly.nl/Jongerius%2520and%2520Lentink%25202010%2520Dragonfly.pdf+&hl=ko&gl=kr&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi3FpLxzhc692PsXZb2e2_iaVZWfaByNk13fU3tn-t6W6iPRksWgx-3NYdgyOzLHs3AG-BYLXLODXAEsLLvNKRafvjjL8CE9jvAOom0SgkTy5E75S_WsPRQy-3IrbAAcmIhg4Fj&sig=AHIEtbSvLnSQuCx48hMub3Cs7sCosKVdlg>

Mark Ryan, 2004, Dragonfly wing study raises micro turbine efficiency, viewed 13 March, <http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/dragonfly-wing-study-raises-micro-turbine-efficiency>

Maria Migallon, 2010, Architecture of the Dragonfly Wing, viewed 13 March,

Video tutorials

Some video tutorials that I found to start on my assignment 1.

http://designreform.net/2009/07/rhino-grasshopper-parametric-truss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLd4-T-l2WM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4HyobqT9I&NR=1&feature=endscreen

http://api.ning.com/files/lSfnkTfiQzo6ysAFfdwQcv-XO8k*N3Qzx9Pl3r15VlG6X8zIqr8cMxRADEOlmPQBFi783ERvnT25SkmaotuziUtEjoegRyU2/dragonfly.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2iq3MTz4oo

http://designreform.net/2009/07/rhino-grasshopper-parametric-truss

Weekly Task 2

RESOURCES

http://inhabitat.com/graft-labs-vertical-village-in-dubai-has-spiders-web-of-solar-panels/vertical2/
http://biomimeticarchitecture.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/maria-mingallon-and-the-architecture-of-the-dragonfly-wing/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v128/ai_3891381/
http://fiftytwosteps.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/step-twenty-eight-old-dragonfly-bearing.html

The importance of the geometry in dragonfly's wings are very interesting and how they all must be in that certain shapes and sizes to link together and be one. Repeated patterns and its shapes and sizes are interesting to alter and see the form change as the numbers of sides get higher and area expands. As shown in the image, when it’s closely looked, the branch has its own thickness and height. As it gets towards the root of the wing, the branch gets thicker compared to the edge of the wing.

Looking at the top view of whole dragon fly, it is symmetric in the y-axis. Two wings at the left reflect exactly to right wings. Its tail has segments allowing it to bend smoothly.

The diagram is showing the rigidity and flexibility of the wing according to its shape and area of each segment. It shows how the wing bends for the purpose of flight. If the number of sides were to increase, which means flexibility will also increase together and show the different form and structure of the wing.

Video Tutorials

Draw a simple 2D rectangle showing the work-flow

Tried my own shape after the video tutorial, but not too sure why my star shape doesn't close up. I'm pretty sure I did it the same way as that square ..

Logical component: Demo with Series & Parametric 2D Grid

Surface, Primitive: One Point Attractor with Pipes

Mode: None, Wireframe or Shade

Theme images for assignment 1

THEMES FOR ASSIGNMENT 1

Theme 1 : Spider Web

Interesting how little squares are builded up to create hexagonal shape between tree branch.

Theme 2 : Dragon Fly's Wing

Similar to spider web; looking closely at the wing, four to six sided shapes are joined together to create one big curvy shape.

Theme 3: Fish flock

There are oval shape around fish's body and two triangles joined together to for fish's tail. Millions of these shapes overlapped together leaves interesting geometry at the background.

Theme 4: Bird's nest

Hemisphere like geometry is created with millions of tree branch overlapped together. Tree branch itself has the random geometry and those are built up to create almost perfect hemisphere without much of hole made in between.